FARNHAM RUNNERSTraining
We meet at our Club House on Wednesdays and Sundays throughout the year for a variety of training sessions. There are additional speed-sessions and on-road hill training on Tuesdays evenings, usually starting from All Hallows School.
Wednesday evenings @ 7pm from the Club House
Two or three groups generally form up - those who want to go further or faster and those who'd like to keep it steady.
During the winter the runs are mostly around Farnham town where we can find street lighting. Longer runs are out to Aldershot or Badshot Lea for those who want to.
During the summer months the runs can be on a variety of terrain over the many commons within easy reach of the clubhouse. Again, the distances and speeds can vary according to needs and ability.
Distances range from 4 or 5 to 11 miles.
Sunday mornings @ 9:30am from the Club House
When a big race is not on, Sundays are for those long, slow training runs. We run out from the clubhouse into the surrounding countryside, making as much use as possible of the wide variety of terrain on the commons of Frensham, Tilford, Hankley or Crooksbury (amongst others).
Tuesday evenings @ 6:15pm - "Improve your speed" sessions
These are open to all Farnham Runners of any ability.
All Hallows school from field at rear
All Hallows School, Weybourne Road, Farnham. Meet in car park, first entrance as you approach from Farnham along Weybourne Road.
Map showing location of All Hallows School
We will be training on the field (the grass 400m track has yet to be marked out); all standards of runner are welcome. This training is almost guaranteed to improve your pace and is suitable for all speeds of runners.
To give an idea of what we do, this is a typical session:
- We warm up and then do some drills, where we focus on posture and style
- We do a little stretching before the session e.g. 2 sets of 4x 400m followed by a 1200m tempo run (the number of repetitions, sets and recovery times and length of tempo run is varied to suit each individual runner)
- On other occasions we do pyramid sessions, timed interval and jog recoveries or pair up for alternate reps to introduce an element of competition
- We then do some core strength exercises, stretching and a warm down.
Don’t worry if you haven’t tried any thing like this before, as we are keen to introduce new and not so new runners to this type of training.
